Movie star Charles Dance has been helped to find out about his ancestry by experts in Cambridge.

The actor, who has starred in Game of Thrones and The Imitation Game, featured in the latest episode of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, which helps celebrities find out about their past.

Broadcast last night (Thursday July 6), the programme was the first in a new series and focused on Dance's efforts to discover the true story of the father he never knew.

Arriving at the Fitz

The actor has made his name playing aristocrats, including Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones . But the upper class world he inhabits on screen is nothing like his own background, as his mum was an under house parlour maid. For the programme, Dance wanted to know if he came from a long line of servants or if he could uncover grander origins.